Hurt by comments on name , should I change ?

Street car named desire.

This is why you don’t tell anyone the name until baby is here!

@newmum332

I just name changed so I can tell you that I'm a Stella too 😉. I get the very occasional joke about beer or mention of Stella McCartney, or mock-scream Stellaaa!! from A Street Car Named Desire, but mostly I'm told what a lovely name it is, that did I know it means star, and Spanish, Italians and others will claim it as their own, and quite frequently what a star I am 😁

I love my name. I've met maybe 2 other Stellas in my life so I know it's not common. Good luck with your babe choices!

It's a lovely name. It does remind me of Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar named Desire' though. . STELLLLAAAAAA

I love Stella! Please use it. I changed DC2 middle name because my mum said she hated it. He's 3 and a half and I still regret it.

How rude . It’s a lovely name .
My MIL laughed when we told her our son’s name and thought we were joking, asking ‘ what is it really?’

Mn has like millions of users, literally. You won't find a name that some people don't hate. As for your mum that's an incredibly rude thing to say, I'll be keeping the actual name secret till after she's born now thanks

Oh my days is this a thing? People turning their nose up at a babies name.
I love Stella and even if I didn't who am I to judge.
Xxx

People are always gonna have an opinion so you just have to decide whether you can live with it or no.

I once even had a stranger telling me my name was horrible and she hated it. It was a girl I met at a party through mutual friends and when I introduced myself she literally said "Oh I hate that name, it's so ugly". My name is Caroline, which I happen to consider a very normal/neutral name that gets loads of love on here.

Bottom line is, not everyone is going to like the same things (names in this case) that you do but you have to decide whether you let it get to your or not. I personally don't like the name Stella (had a horrible family member named Estela ruin it for me) but it's your child so your choice.

I like the name.

I'd be very tempted to tell her I was considering a few alternatives, and then reel off a list of really peculiar names like Hildegarde, Araminta, Jezebel and Eglantine!

Don't let her put you off - it's your baby and she was out of order.

In your position, I'd reply to my mum letting her know that I'd felt pressured into telling her the names we'd chosen and am massively hurt that having shared them with her, she feels it's ok to reply that she hates one of them. Tell her you still love the name Stella and that you hope by the time the babies arrive, she'll have found something nicer to say.

Stella is a great name, your mum will get used to it.

How rude! Loads of people don't 'like' the names chosen for babies but then they just become their names and people stop having opinions on the name and just love the kid.

And Stella is a great name.

Good luck and loads of love to you and your family.

I have twins too. Twins are brilliant.

Call them whatever you want to.

It doesn't matter one bit, that your Mum dislikes this name choice for a girl. I don't understand why she was adamant that you should tell her really. I like the name,but not heard this name for years, but I had two friends at school named Stella, but that was in the 1950's !`

My grandson has a name I don't love.
But it is a name chosen for him by HIS parents and they love it.
That's all that matters.

Stella is a great name but I am impartial as I have Spanish as a mother tongue.

It's your child, OP, and your choice.

*doh! Just realised it was your mum.....she is obviously still your mum!

I love Stella. Classic name, not faddy.

Your friend isn’t a friend. I’d have responded with “I’d suggest you don’t use it for your child, in that case.”

I like it.

People go batshit over names don't they. My MIL hated DS name do much she told her extended family a different name 🙄.

I had a little boy 2 weeks ago and we called him Barney. We've had a few negative comments and most people wernt keen but we loved it so didn't care what anyone said. My middle son is Ernie, my mum hated it but now he's 7 and she'd admitted she can't imagine him being called anything else. So screw the haters and go with your choice!!

It's a lovely name. Go for it! Only reason to change it would be if she'd pointed out some unfortunate connotation you hadn't thought of. My dps and dh's dps weren't keen on ds's name (a classic English king's name like William/Edward/Charles etc) - we used it anyway and they have never mentioned it again (anyway I think Ethelred is a great name).

Stella is a great name! Wouldn’t occur to me at all to think of the beer if I’d heard someone named their baby that. Classic, elegant and not overly common.

My mum was quite vocal about her dislike of our DD’s name. But then it’s not unusual for my mum to be quite vocal about her dislike of many things so it made no difference to our decision! The name was actually a second choice but my DD just didn’t suit our first choice.
My mum randomly said last week how she now likes it and can’t imagine her being called anything else.
Stella is a beautiful name, which I associate with beautiful people. Call your child whatever you want to (within reason!) but be prepared that you may have a change of heart yourself when you meet them!

Please don’t be put off your lovely name-Stella is fab. I know a few people who’s parents have slagged off their new grandchild’s name -so rude!

Mum hated DS' name. It's a normal name. She used to say "they've called him xxx, we don't like it but it's their choice"

Until she bumped into an old school friend whose grandson was called Usher. That shut her up